[HN Gopher] Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s
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Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s
Author : mistyvales
Score : 89 points
Date : 2026-03-29 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (isp.netscape.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (isp.netscape.com)
| howseer wrote:
| See also: http://www.compuserve.com
| 5555624 wrote:
| Both pages. Netscape and CompuServe, are "(c) 2026 AOL Media
| LLC. All rights reserved."
| tosti wrote:
| They share the same TLS certificate.
| hecanjog wrote:
| The "download browser" link led to an AOL_Netscape.exe -- I guess
| it's this Chromium-based web browser mentioned on wikipedia but I
| don't feel like installing wine :)
|
| > Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007,
| when AOL announced that the company would stop supporting it by
| early 2008.[11][12] Until 2025, AOL used the Netscape brand to
| market a discount Internet service provider, which itself
| provided a Chromium-based web browser called Netscape, developed
| by UK security firm SentryBay.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
| andai wrote:
| Thought this was cute and sent it to my friends before realizing
| all the text is about Israel, Trump, Iran, airstrikes etc.
|
| Whoops! Not exactly Relaxing Sunday Reading Material... so I
| deleted the messages.
|
| This page is a lot nicer though:
|
| https://isp.netscape.com/entertainment/
| talktalkmake wrote:
| "Actor James Tolkan of 'Top Gun' and 'Back to the Future' fame
| dies at 94 Actor James Tolkan, known for his roles as..."
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Some previous discussion:
|
| 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26733494
| guerrilla wrote:
| This is fucking glorious. I just wish I could customize it a
| little like Excite or Yahoo! back in the day.
| kstrauser wrote:
| I used my.yahoo.com so much. It was my browser's actual home
| page, on purpose.
| GaryBluto wrote:
| I am both incredibly happy that this exists and disturbed by the
| possibility that it being posted here will result in it's
| discovery internally (as I presume it's automated) and shutdown.
|
| IIRC this is just a rebranded version of another service run by
| the parent company. I remember seeing it recently but don't have
| a link on hand.
| HerbManic wrote:
| This is an instant bookmark! Also do use the side bar to change
| topics so that it isnt all doom and gloom.
| js2 wrote:
| Be interesting to see if Bending Spoons keeps this alive.
| angott wrote:
| 101.27 KB to load the full page with images and scripts.
| Incredibly refreshing, maybe because it brings me back to simpler
| days in my life. :)
| dpapathanasiou wrote:
| Wow, no idea that `netscape.com` was still active!
| bluedino wrote:
| Still have some accounts tied to Netscape email addresses. I
| think they gave them out free during the Hotmail days. Most of
| those addresses are for accounts for the couple websites from
| those days that are still around. eBay, etc.
| youniverse wrote:
| As someone who isn't old enough to have experienced this era of
| internet, the contrast of efficient utility for the user between
| this and modern news websites is really upsetting. :(
| talktalkmake wrote:
| This makes me happy
| pndy wrote:
| That's like taken from mid 2000s when Netscape did a sort of a
| full circle picking up Firefox and releasing own browser again.
| They added some own features but that didn't hold up and give
| them any serious amount of users to keep with this project going.
| schiffern wrote:
| uBlock Origin filters for some of the ISP-specific elements you
| probably don't need (remove the carets "^" for uBO Lite, it
| removes elements directly from the HTML to prevent flickering):
| isp.netscape.com##^div#mailButton
| isp.netscape.com##^div#menuBlk:has-text(Member Center)
| isp.netscape.com##^div#menuBlk:has-text(Tools) !Help links
| in header isp.netscape.com##^div#hdrLnks !Bing search
| isp.netscape.com##^div#hdrSrch
| isp.netscape.com##^div#newsSearch !Footer links
| isp.netscape.com##^ul#ftrLinks
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